Voorheesville Library Quotes & Sayings

Hopefully you'll grow old enough to realize that Achilles was a gorydamn fool. And we're fools all the more for not realizing he wasn't Homer's hero. He was warning. — Pierce Brown

Recognize that your life really matters, that who and how you love really matters and that you are successful. When you take the step to say all this about your life, you will have proven to yourself that you are brave! — Andrea T. Goeglein

Five times was Athanasius expelled from his throne; twenty years he passed as an exile or a fugitive; and almost every province of the Roman empire was successively witness to his merit, and his sufferings in the cause of the Homoousion, which he considered as the sole pleasure and business, as the duty, and as the glory, of his life. Amidst the storms of persecution, the archbishop of Alexandria was patient of labour, jealous of fame, careless of safety; and — Edward Gibbon

Without pain, how we could know joy. — John Green

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Worrying is the one game in which, if you guess right, you don't get any satisfaction out of your smartness. A busy man has no time to bother with it. — George Horace Lorimer

I'm glad they're taking a step back. A lot of this is happening so quickly that people can't keep up with it. — Clementa C. Pinckney

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray! — Philibert Joseph Roux

In America, the only way to succeed politically is to contest your opponent at every pass; to attack every weakness, and most importantly, to make people believe that he or she is a mortal threat to whatever object or value system is in vogue at the moment: the American constitution, Judeo-Christian values, or my favorite catch-all scapegoat: FREEDOM. — Ryan Moehring

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going. — Carol S. Dweck

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect. — Stacey D'Erasmo

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen. — Marissa Mayer

Some storms leave minimal damage, other ones change people's lives, making them have to start all over again. — J.P. Summers